Pair Teams On DPD Design Solution

Aug. 12, 2010
A mixed-signal, digital-predistortion (MS-DPD) development kit from Analog Devices will help wireless infrastructure equipment designers who need to quickly evaluate systems using DPD techniques in multicarrier cellular base stations. It is designed to ...

A mixed-signal, digital-predistortion (MS-DPD) development kit from Analog Devices will help wireless infrastructure equipment designers who need to quickly evaluate systems using DPD techniques in multicarrier cellular base stations. It is designed to seamlessly integrate one of the company's mixed-signal transmit chains of devices with any field-programmable gate array (FPGA) development kit with a high-speed mezzanine card (MSMC) connector from Altera Corp. The Analog Devices development board contains more than a dozen of the company's components, including a high-speed digital-to-analog converter (DAC) and quadrature modulator. According to Martin Cotter, Segment Director, Communications Infrastructure, Analog Devices, "The MS-DPD platform offers the highest performance possible in the transmit and observation-path signal chains, allowing our customers to focus on differentiation in their DPD algorithm implementations."

About the Author

Jack Browne | Technical Contributor

Jack Browne, Technical Contributor, has worked in technical publishing for over 30 years. He managed the content and production of three technical journals while at the American Institute of Physics, including Medical Physics and the Journal of Vacuum Science & Technology. He has been a Publisher and Editor for Penton Media, started the firm’s Wireless Symposium & Exhibition trade show in 1993, and currently serves as Technical Contributor for that company's Microwaves & RF magazine. Browne, who holds a BS in Mathematics from City College of New York and BA degrees in English and Philosophy from Fordham University, is a member of the IEEE.

Sponsored Recommendations

Forging the Future of Defense

Oct. 11, 2024
Raytheon’s Advanced Technology team incubates capabilities that fuel the future of defense. Together with leading research and development organizations, def...

Phase-Matched Cable Assemblies

Oct. 8, 2024
Phase-matched cable assemblies are ubiquitous, and growing in popularity. Electrical length matching requirements continue to tighten and the mechanical precision of cable construction...

3 New Wideband MMIC LNAs Cover 5.5 to 20 GHz

Oct. 8, 2024
Mini-Circuits’ expanded PMA3-series of wideband, ultra-low NF MMIC amplifiers operates in ranges between 5.5 and 20 GHz.

Wideband Amplifiers Variable and Temperature-Compensated Gain

Oct. 8, 2024
Many types of RF systems and applications that span from the upper end of microwave frequencies to the lower end of mmWave have arisen in recent years. Meeting system requirements...